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Job Summary:
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company focused on enhancing military capabilities through advanced technology. The Program Chief Engineer will lead technical initiatives, engage with stakeholders, and drive the development of autonomous systems to support defense operations.
Responsibilities:
• Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders, external clients, and industry partners to gather insights, align objectives, and secure buy-in for strategic initiatives.
• Act as the primary technical liaison for the client, advocate for their needs within the engineering organization and ensure their feedback directly influences the engineering roadmap.
• Communicate the outputs of these efforts including upcoming software releases, new capabilities, and performance improvement over time.
• Drive technical outcomes through meticulous understanding of system performance, drive product development through operational learnings and data, own the technical narrative from product deliver through continuous improvements.
• Credibly represent our system in front of technical and nontechnical clients
• Bring clarity to the path between engineering development and operational delivery.
• Whether through sprint planning and execution or on-the-ground support of test events, attack blockers and guide the team through fast-paced execution to deliver the optimal technical outcome for the client.
• Translate strategic business goals and program requirements into actionable project plans, setting clear milestones, and driving initiatives from conception through to successful completion, ensuring they deliver intended outcomes and add value to the business.
• Oversee the allocation of personnel, budget, and other resources to ensure successful execution of these initiatives.
• When possible, lead with data.
• Execute on broad and/or ambiguous requirements from external clients.
• Seize the opportunity to shape requirements in favor of the optimal product for the client and the company.
• Demonstrate high ownership on all pieces of work.
• Become a trusted partner to Anduril’s engineers.
• Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team projects spanning multiple teams and initiatives.
• Collaborate closely and even embed within partner teams, such as hardware, software, test, and field operations as needed.
• Support the drafting of technical proposals, ensuring that potential projects and scaling opportunities with each account are accurately scoped, resourced, and aligned with the organization's capabilities and strategic goals.
• Drive the alignment of the technical roadmap with the strategic vision.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Minimum of 5+ years experience as a Lead Engineer, Technical Program Manager, Technical Product Manager, or Engineer in an autonomous systems, robotics, or software development environment.
• Proven client-facing technical program management and/or systems engineering experience, preferably in the defense, national security, or aerospace domains
• Strong background in systems engineering and architecture
• Demonstrated ability to interpret complex requirements, differentiate between rigid and flexible elements, and translate them into a robust, executable engineering framework.
• Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders, across a wide range of technical comfort
• Experience with at least one of the following: Link 16, JITC Certification, or Cyber Certification (IATT/ATO) and Risk Management Framework (RMF).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency with Atlassian products (e.g., Jira, Confluence) for task tracking and robust program management support.
• Must be able to obtain a minimum Secret Clearance.
• Must be able to travel up to 25% of the time
Preferred:
• Experience with specific fire control systems (e.g., AEGIS, TOC-L, THAAD)
• Strong technical, analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive decisions
• Ability to work within organizations with minimal structure and with minimal direction.
• Active U.S. government security clearance.
• Bachelor’s Degree in an Engineering discipline
Company:
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that specializes in developing advanced autonomous systems to enhance national security. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Costa Mesa, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.